scheduled

verb

1. 1

   Also a form of schedulesimple past and past participle of schedule

adjective

1. 1

   Planned; according to schedule (timetable).

   scheduled surgery

2. 2

   Listed in a schedule (a table or registry).

   Near-synonyms: listed, registered

   scheduled pipe sizes

3. 3

   Included in a Schedule of the Indian Constitution, and as such is recognised by the government as eligible for special protection and consideration; afforded special concessions

   Near-synonym: recognized

   scheduled caste; scheduled tribe; scheduled language

noun

1. 1

   informalSynonym of schedulee.

   However, one cannot help finding some similarity between these sharp words and those which became familiar when - well before the oil crisis - the fight between the scheduleds and non-scheduleds was in full swing.

   If you have a curfew for the scheduleds, I think you should have them for the nonscheduleds, and of course in general aviation you have a wide range of corporate jet aircraft, and some of these corporate jet aircraft actually make more noise than the usual light-body airline jets, so I think it should stay the way it is.

   Finally, as election time approached, the Congress, in a last desperate attempt to induce backwards and scheduleds to return to the party fold, raised the overall reservation quota to 68 per cent, then 73 per cent, and finally 80 per cent.

Forms

plural

scheduleds